{"id":78,"date":"2006-07-04T01:55:08","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-07-04T01:55:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T06:55:08","slug":"one-lucky-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"one lucky fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my post is about a very strange occurrence that happened today. While most people swat and kill flies&#8230; I saved one. Here&#8217;s what happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This morning when I got home from staying over at the interns house again&#8230; I took a little nap and awoke to make myself some lunch. At first glance into the ridge, I saw what appeared to be a dead fly just lying on its side on the top shelf&#8230; next to the orange juice.<\/p>\n<p>You know&#8230; one of those unfortunate mishaps where a fly from the outside world mistakenly comes into your home and gets stuck in the fridge&#8230; hmm&#8230; happens all the time, right? :)<\/p>\n<p>After I regained my composure, I picked it up by its wing and prepared to throw it away (thinking it was dead)&#8230; when I picked it up&#8230; its legs began to move and the other wing began to flutter&#8230; this little guy wasn&#8217;t dead&#8230; just very, very cold! Upon discovering there was still life in this little guy I couldn&#8217;t bare with the idea of just &#8220;finishing him off&#8221; and throwing him away. So I put him down on the counter top.<\/p>\n<p>He remained stiff. Dead stiff.<\/p>\n<p>Not planning to wait long to see if it would awaken&#8230; when I was about to pick him back up and toss him in the trash&#8230; his legs began to move again and he tried and tried to stand. So I just left him on the counter as I left to go to the movies with my mom. (we went to see prairie home companion &#8211; which was actually pretty funny).<\/p>\n<p>When I got back, the fly was gone. I just figured my dad had found it and threw it away&#8230;because surely it died, right?<\/p>\n<p>A little later on this evening I was at the kitchen table eating dinner when I see this fly land next to me. Walking ever so much closer. I tried swatting it away to get it out of my space, but it just kept coming back. Not scared.<\/p>\n<p>WAS THIS THE FLY FROM MY FRIDGE!?<\/p>\n<p>On a fluke, I tried to get it to climb on my finger&#8230; and it totally did&#8230; unless I am wrong, flies are easily spooked and don&#8217;t let people get too close to them. But friends, it remained on my hand until I could get to the back door and set him free. Oddly enough he trusted me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now that it is all typed out, this story sounds really weird and I feel like a very bizzare person&#8230; but there was something very sweet about the whole thing. Something cool about knowing I helped to prolong his life.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t make fun of me. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my post is about a very strange occurrence that happened today. While most people swat and kill flies&#8230; I saved one. Here&#8217;s what happened&#8230; This morning when I got home from staying over at the interns house again&#8230; I took a little nap and awoke to make myself some lunch. At first glance into&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=78\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">one lucky fly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,23,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","category-crazy-weekends","category-what-the","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}